The May 4th Movement was 19 19 May, with young students in Beijing as the main body and people, people, businessmen and classes all over the country participating in it, and rebelled against the government's patriotic movement through demonstrations, petitions, strikes and violence. It is also an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement of China people, also known as the May 4th Storm.

The root of the May 4th Movement is the national crisis caused by the policy that imperialism stepped up its aggression against China and the Beiyang warlord government brutally oppressed the domestic people and compromised and surrendered to the outside world. The direct cause of the May 4th Movement was the failure of China's diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference. 1919 65438+10 In October, the United States, Britain, France, Japan and Italy held a regional conference in Paris, that is, the Paris Peace Conference. The meeting rejected the request of the China delegation, one of the victors in the war, to restore China's sovereignty, and decided to take over German privileges in Shandong. The news spread to China, which aroused the great indignation of China people and became the fuse of the May 4th Movement.

At the Paris Peace Conference held after World War I, foreign powers trampled on China's sovereignty and handed over German rights and interests in Shandong to Japan, that is, the Shandong issue. At that time, the Beiyang government in China failed to defend the national interests, and it was weak in the face of foreign forces, which made the people of China extremely dissatisfied and took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction. One of the most famous slogans at that time was "fighting against foreign countries" and "punishing greed". The May 4th Movement directly influenced the birth and development of China. China history generally defines it as "the patriotic movement against imperialism and feudalism", and regards this movement as the watershed between the old democratic revolution and the new democratic revolution. The May 4th Movement was a patriotic movement that thoroughly opposed imperialism and feudalism. In this movement, the proletariat began to step onto the political stage and play the role of the main force. The May 4th Movement promoted the widespread spread of Marxism in China and was the beginning of China's new-democratic revolution.

The May 4th Movement was deeply branded with Marxism. The internal reason is that the Chinese nation has never stopped resisting and struggling since the colonial and semi-colonial society in China gradually deepened in 1840. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Boxer Rebellion and the Revolution of 1911 are all concrete manifestations of this resistance. The May 4th Movement was in the midst of a national crisis and the further colonization of China. Young intellectuals inherited the strong sense of social responsibility and brave fighting spirit of pre-Qin intellectuals, and charged ahead, thus arousing the awakening of the working class, and finally forcing Beiyang government to give up signing the Paris Peace Conference and recall the traitors. The May 4th Movement is the continuation, extension and deepening of China's successive wars of resistance. Without the sense of responsibility and pioneering spirit of intellectuals and the working class, there would be no May 4th Movement. The sense of responsibility and spirit of intellectuals and the working class in the May 4th Movement continued to flourish in the democratic revolution.